Shit towns description of Elizabeth especially the last sentence.
A planned satellite slum in the far northern reaches of Adelaide, Elizabeth is essentially Adelaide’s Logan, Penrith or Werribee. Due to a restraining order taken out by Adelaide, Elizabeth must stay at least 25 kilometres from the CBD at all times.
Despite being swallowed by the new City of Playford in 1997, the former city of Elizabeth—now a loose conurbation of suburbs—maintains a cultural distinction based on a proud tradition of unfiltered antisocial boganness. Suburbs considered part of the informal Elizabeth area include Elizabeth, Elizabeth North, Elizabeth East, Elizabeth South, not Elizabeth West, Elizabeth Downs, Elizabeth Grove, Elizabeth Park, Elizabeth Vale, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Smart, Queen Elizabeth II and Elizabeth Báthory.
Elizabeth is Australia’s version of Detroit in that it’s known for an automobile manufacturing industry that no longer exists, and like Detroit it is now a desolate wasteland with a 100 per cent unemployment rate. The entire Elizabeth area is dotted with abandoned overgrown lots covered with car corpses, mattresses and old couches, which are surrounded by blocks of decaying units and thriving meth labs. Without gainful employment to distract them, ‘Lizbeff’ locals are free to devote themselves to hobbies such as drinking, drugs, fighting in the street, beating up bus drivers, stabbing people on the train, ransacking construction sites, stealing the wheels off cars, stealing cars off their wheels, robbing people’s houses while they’re out, and robbing people’s houses while they’re home. If you aren’t being assaulted by a dole bludger, choking on burnout fumes or wading through a torrent of used syringes, you’re probably squeezing past the Holden SS Ute that has ploughed into your living room.
It’s no mean feat to be the worst part of Adelaide, a city famous for serial killers and paedophiles, but Elizabeth has nailed it.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 1:25 pm
